A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Title | A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court |
Year for Search | 1889 |
Authors | [Clemens], [Samuel Langhorne](1835-1910) |
Tertiary Authors | Twain, Mark [pseud.] |
Date Published | 1889 |
Publisher | Charles L. Webster |
Place Published | New York |
Keywords | Male author, US author |
Annotation | Satire presenting a failed attempt to build a democratic, technological society in the time of King Arthur. Satire particularly aimed at government, technological innovations, and the Church. |
Additional Publishers | Critical ed. ed. Bernard L. Stein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Rpt. with partial illus. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997 with an “Introduction (vii-xxv) and “Explanatory Notes” (358-60) by M. Thomas Inge. An excerpt was published as “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Century Magazine (New York) 39.1 (November 1889): 74-83. U.K. ed. as A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. |
Title Note | U.K. ed. as A Yankee in King Arthur's Court. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. |
Illustration | Illus. Dan Beard |
Pseudonym | Mark Twain [pseud.] |
Holding Institutions | L, PSt |
Author Note | (1835-1910) |
Full Text | 1889 [Clemens, Samuel Langhorne] (1835-1910). A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. By Mark Twain [pseud.]. Illus. Dan Beard. New York: Charles L. Webster. Rpt. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1996. U.K. ed. as A Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. Illus. Dan Beard. London: Chatto & Windus, 1889. Critical ed. ed. Bernard L. Stein. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1979. Rpt. with partial illus. Oxford, Eng.: Oxford University Press, 1997 with an “Introduction (vii-xxv) and “Explanatory Notes” (358-60) by M. Thomas Inge. An excerpt was published as “A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court.” Century Magazine (New York) 39.1 (November 1889): 74-83. L, PSt Satire presenting a failed attempt to build a democratic, technological society in the time of King Arthur. Satire particularly aimed at government, technological innovations, and the Church. |